1841 in Australia

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Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1841 Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1841 in Australia.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales - Sir George Gipps
• Sir George Grey
• Governor of Tasmania - Captain Sir John Franklin
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - John Hutt.

Events

• February: An unknown number of Waadandi Noongar Aboriginals are killed in the Wonnerup massacre.
• 3 May – New Zealand was proclaimed a colony independent from New South Wales.
• 7 June – Darlinghurst Gaol took in its first prisoners.
• 1 July – The
  convict assignment system was abolished in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
  and was replaced by the probation gang system.
• 27 August – Rufus River massacre.
• 1 September – Port Phillip Savings Bank was established.
• 23 October – Caroline Chisholm established the Female Immigrants Home to help unemployed new arrivals to Australia.
• Undated – Between 30 and 35
  Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres
  .
• Undated – An unknown number of
  Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres
  .

• February - The first economic minerals discovered in Australia were silver and lead at Glen Osmond, now a suburb of Adelaide in South Australia.
• 7 April -
  Wylie, an indigenous Australian who accompanied him. Eyre left Fowlers Bay, South Australia on 25 February and reached Albany, Western Australia on 7 July.^[3]

• 13 April - the first photograph was taken in Australia by a visiting naval captain, Captain Augustin Lucas
• 24 May - Gas lighting used for the first time in Sydney.^[4]
• clinical medicine
  .

Arts and literature

• The first Australian book for children was published in Sydney, A mother's offering to her children, by a 'lady long resident in New South Wales'. Although published anonymously, the author is Charlotte Barton.^[5]

Births

• 26 February – William Horn, South Australian politician, philanthropist and mining magnate (d. 1922
  )
• 20 March – James Walker, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923
  )
• 15 April – Mary Grant Roberts, zoo owner (d. 1921
  )
• 17 April – William Hartnoll, Tasmanian politician (d. 1932
  )
• 26 May – John Moffat, entrepreneur (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1918
  )
• 3 July – James Styles, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1913
  )
• 4 August – James Chalmers, missionary (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1901
  )
• 13 August – Johnny Mullagh, cricketer (d. 1891
  )
• 24 December – Henry Dobson, 17th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1918
  )

• 20 January – Jørgen Jørgensen, adventurer and writer (born in Denmark) (b. 1780
  )
• 16 March – Edward Davis, bushranger (b. ?), hanged
• 8 November – Sir Francis Forbes, 1st Chief Justice of New South Wales (born in Bermuda) (b. 1784
  )